paecmaker
08-25-2011, 03:50 PM
I have copied and google translated this text from a newspaper.
Immortalized his love - in Halo
But life was in chaos when the fans got wind of their "romantic" secret
Meg Sagi knew a secret.
The world of "Halo" players would do anything to expose it.
This is the bloody, nasty and beautiful story of how they eventually succeeded.
It is a spring day in 2003 when Meg Sagi sit and look at pictures of slit wrists.
The images came in an email, along with a threat. An unknown teenage boy screams, swears and threatens that he will take his own life if she does not reveal her secret. The wrists in the pictures is his, and the next time he will not be as careful.
There's something about those pictures, and something with the wording that he uses, which makes Meg suspect that he is serious. And that's about when, as she anxiously trying to find someone who can help him, she get struck by the absurdity of this situation.
For what's her secret? What is it that makes this boy threatening to take his own life, and with him several times before threatening to take hers? What is it that Meg knows that has made her the main character in this macabre drama of life and death?
Well, she knows how to find a secret message in "Halo".
Everything is about a bloody Easter egg.
In a bloody video game.
How did I get here? wonder Meg Sagi, although it is a matter that she already knows the answer.
The player in love with the game creator
It all began - as it so often does - with a crush.
In August 1999 they met for the first time. Jaime Griesemer has just been employed by the gaming house Bungie, after many years she has been a devoted supporter of the games "Marathon" and "Myth". Meg Sagi is one of the world's best "Marathon" players. A legend in the fans quarantine.
They fall in love. They become a couple.
But Jaime is working with the "Halo" and it's not a game that can be created without sacrificing things. And what is sacrificed is usually the time he should have spent on Meg. He cancels dinners and trips. Sometimes it is very difficult to even get hold of him.
It is one of the reasons that it became as it were.
It is now 2001 "Halo" will soon be released, and Meg has traveled to Seattle to meet with Jaime. He wants to show something for her. He invites her to his workstation, start an early version of "Halo," and starts playing the first track.
She thinks he is playing in a strange way. Do things that seem unnecessary. Kills his own spaceship captain.
Finally he comes into a room, and looks up at the ceiling.
Meg Sagi look up there makes her laugh. And say "Thank you" over and over again. And forgive Jaime Griesemer for everything.
And then he shows her the track once again. He tells of the intricate chain of objectives that must be met before the game allows one to enter that room. You have to jump on a specific thin and wait there for ten seconds. Look up at the ceiling at a special occasion. And so on.
Managers unaware
Soon, eight million copies of "Halo" to be sold, and that room will be available in every single one of them. But its a place you can not find unless you already know the road. Not even Jaime's managers or employees are aware that it's there. It is a place only for two people. It is their secret.
It should have remained there.
It is now February 2003. "Halo" is a bare-bones on the mystery. Uncontrollably devoted fans have found everything from the art director's initials hidden under the main character's swipe and the little hippo artwork that can be detected on the shotgun rounds if you use the sniper rifle to zoom in on them. But when someone on the Bungie forum to make a statement, claiming that everything is found, Meg can not hold it any longer. She replies:
- No one has found my easter egg yet.
When she's confronted later, she leaves a few cryptic clues.
Meg envisioned a fun Easter egg hunt, such as she and other Bungiefans had engaged in the 90s. And it will be too. For some of the supporters, and many of her friends, this is something that gives "Halo" new life again, and it is for their sake she keeps the hunt alive as long as possible. Despite everything that happened.
Meg hadnt realised about how big "Halo" was compared with "Marathon". She did not realize that thousands of people from around the world were so interested in "Halo" that they would do everything possible to find the last great secret.
Soon spreads the rumor of these groups. And so it begins.
The hunt will last three months. It just gets more and more rabid as time goes on. She gets hundreds of emails every day, she can not go into the forums without being drowned in question, she is threatened on many occasions. People openly discussing how they should proceed to get her phone number and home address.
A bloody heart
On April 21, shortly after Meg received the emails with the wrists, the forum signature "megalomaniac" the first player to get into the "Halo" holy of holies. Without really understanding why he find himself in the game's innermost room, looking up at the ceiling and see the secret, that people have put so awful lot of energy to find, what people said they were willing to kill for - the message that never was devoted to his eyes:
There is a blood stain on the ceiling.
Blood stains in the shape of a heart.
The heart is perforated by bullet holes.
Bullet holes form an "M".
Today, Meg Sagi as a prosecutor, and has specialized in serious violent crimes. She does not want to reveal too many details about her life - because she lives under constant threat from those she is trying to get convicted. When I ask her if you can draw any parallels to what she experienced during the hunt for Easter egg so she replied that yes, some of the letters, threats and behaviors that she experienced when are things that she sometimes encounters when she is practicing their profession.
She refers to Jaime as "Mr. Griesemer," and do not want to reveal more about their relationship than that it ended in July 2005, after they had been together for six years.
The hunt led her to conclude
Already in 2003, Meg Sagi end to an even longer relationship. Shortly after the Easter egg hunt was over, she left the Bungie community that she had been an influential part of the mid 90's. She says the events of the race played a leading role in the decision.
And it is understood that it is most ironic in this story.
For three months thousands of players spent hundreds of thousands of hours looking for way to Meg Sagis heart. And when they finally found it, it meant only one thing.
That they lost her heart for ever.
Immortalized his love - in Halo
But life was in chaos when the fans got wind of their "romantic" secret
Meg Sagi knew a secret.
The world of "Halo" players would do anything to expose it.
This is the bloody, nasty and beautiful story of how they eventually succeeded.
It is a spring day in 2003 when Meg Sagi sit and look at pictures of slit wrists.
The images came in an email, along with a threat. An unknown teenage boy screams, swears and threatens that he will take his own life if she does not reveal her secret. The wrists in the pictures is his, and the next time he will not be as careful.
There's something about those pictures, and something with the wording that he uses, which makes Meg suspect that he is serious. And that's about when, as she anxiously trying to find someone who can help him, she get struck by the absurdity of this situation.
For what's her secret? What is it that makes this boy threatening to take his own life, and with him several times before threatening to take hers? What is it that Meg knows that has made her the main character in this macabre drama of life and death?
Well, she knows how to find a secret message in "Halo".
Everything is about a bloody Easter egg.
In a bloody video game.
How did I get here? wonder Meg Sagi, although it is a matter that she already knows the answer.
The player in love with the game creator
It all began - as it so often does - with a crush.
In August 1999 they met for the first time. Jaime Griesemer has just been employed by the gaming house Bungie, after many years she has been a devoted supporter of the games "Marathon" and "Myth". Meg Sagi is one of the world's best "Marathon" players. A legend in the fans quarantine.
They fall in love. They become a couple.
But Jaime is working with the "Halo" and it's not a game that can be created without sacrificing things. And what is sacrificed is usually the time he should have spent on Meg. He cancels dinners and trips. Sometimes it is very difficult to even get hold of him.
It is one of the reasons that it became as it were.
It is now 2001 "Halo" will soon be released, and Meg has traveled to Seattle to meet with Jaime. He wants to show something for her. He invites her to his workstation, start an early version of "Halo," and starts playing the first track.
She thinks he is playing in a strange way. Do things that seem unnecessary. Kills his own spaceship captain.
Finally he comes into a room, and looks up at the ceiling.
Meg Sagi look up there makes her laugh. And say "Thank you" over and over again. And forgive Jaime Griesemer for everything.
And then he shows her the track once again. He tells of the intricate chain of objectives that must be met before the game allows one to enter that room. You have to jump on a specific thin and wait there for ten seconds. Look up at the ceiling at a special occasion. And so on.
Managers unaware
Soon, eight million copies of "Halo" to be sold, and that room will be available in every single one of them. But its a place you can not find unless you already know the road. Not even Jaime's managers or employees are aware that it's there. It is a place only for two people. It is their secret.
It should have remained there.
It is now February 2003. "Halo" is a bare-bones on the mystery. Uncontrollably devoted fans have found everything from the art director's initials hidden under the main character's swipe and the little hippo artwork that can be detected on the shotgun rounds if you use the sniper rifle to zoom in on them. But when someone on the Bungie forum to make a statement, claiming that everything is found, Meg can not hold it any longer. She replies:
- No one has found my easter egg yet.
When she's confronted later, she leaves a few cryptic clues.
Meg envisioned a fun Easter egg hunt, such as she and other Bungiefans had engaged in the 90s. And it will be too. For some of the supporters, and many of her friends, this is something that gives "Halo" new life again, and it is for their sake she keeps the hunt alive as long as possible. Despite everything that happened.
Meg hadnt realised about how big "Halo" was compared with "Marathon". She did not realize that thousands of people from around the world were so interested in "Halo" that they would do everything possible to find the last great secret.
Soon spreads the rumor of these groups. And so it begins.
The hunt will last three months. It just gets more and more rabid as time goes on. She gets hundreds of emails every day, she can not go into the forums without being drowned in question, she is threatened on many occasions. People openly discussing how they should proceed to get her phone number and home address.
A bloody heart
On April 21, shortly after Meg received the emails with the wrists, the forum signature "megalomaniac" the first player to get into the "Halo" holy of holies. Without really understanding why he find himself in the game's innermost room, looking up at the ceiling and see the secret, that people have put so awful lot of energy to find, what people said they were willing to kill for - the message that never was devoted to his eyes:
There is a blood stain on the ceiling.
Blood stains in the shape of a heart.
The heart is perforated by bullet holes.
Bullet holes form an "M".
Today, Meg Sagi as a prosecutor, and has specialized in serious violent crimes. She does not want to reveal too many details about her life - because she lives under constant threat from those she is trying to get convicted. When I ask her if you can draw any parallels to what she experienced during the hunt for Easter egg so she replied that yes, some of the letters, threats and behaviors that she experienced when are things that she sometimes encounters when she is practicing their profession.
She refers to Jaime as "Mr. Griesemer," and do not want to reveal more about their relationship than that it ended in July 2005, after they had been together for six years.
The hunt led her to conclude
Already in 2003, Meg Sagi end to an even longer relationship. Shortly after the Easter egg hunt was over, she left the Bungie community that she had been an influential part of the mid 90's. She says the events of the race played a leading role in the decision.
And it is understood that it is most ironic in this story.
For three months thousands of players spent hundreds of thousands of hours looking for way to Meg Sagis heart. And when they finally found it, it meant only one thing.
That they lost her heart for ever.